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Let’s Have An Other Look At The Lisbon Agreement
Matthijs GeuzeWIPO
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What’s New?
• Membership• Registration Activity• Content of Registrations
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26 Member States
Africa (6): Algeria, Burkina Faso, Congo, Gabon, Togo, Tunisia
America (6): Costa Rica, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru
Asia (4): Georgia, Iran (Islamic Rep), Israel, Korea (DPR)
Europe (10): Bulgaria, Czech Rep., France, Hungary, Italy, Moldova,
Montenegro, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia
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since 2004
Six New Members: Georgia, Iran (Islamic Rep), Korea (DPR), Montenegro,
Nicaragua, Peru
Recordings: 2004 – 16 2005 – 30 2006 – 53 2007 (Jan-May) – 23
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Content of Registrations
• Possibility of Coexistence• Partial Refusals
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Content of Registrations
• Partial Refusals• Translations
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Content of Registrations
• Partial Refusals• Dissimilar Products?• Prior Users?
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Protection of an Appellation
• Country of Origin• Other Countries of the Lisbon Union
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Substantive Requirements
Protection in the country of origin
• Recognition• “Appellation of origin” as defined in Lisbon• “Country of origin” as defined in Lisbon• Demarcation of the area of production
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Legal Effect(1)
• Effect of international registration
– extension of protection to countries other than the country of origin
– indefinite (as long as the appellation is protected in the country of origin)
• Except in a country that ...
– issued a refusal (within the prescribed time-limit), or– invalidated the effect of the international registration
in its territory
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Legal Effect(2)
Required level of protection
– protection against any usurpation or imitation– reputation– AO cannot be “deemed” to have become generic
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Looking Back and Ahead
• Records of the Lisbon Diplomatic Conference (1958)
• Updating the Lisbon Regulations
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THANK YOU
Matthijs GeuzeWIPO